24 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



hatred, and ill-will. It will do him no good to strike 

 a blow, unless you can scare him, but if you can succeed 

 in scaring him, you can whip him without making 

 him mad. Fear and anger never exist together in the 

 horse, and as soon as one is visible, you find the other 

 has disappeared. As soon as you have frightened him 

 so that he will stand up straight, and pay some atten- 

 tion to you, approach him again and caress him a great 

 deal more than you whipped him, then you will excite 

 the two controlling passions of his nature — love and 

 fear — and he will love and fear you too, and, as soon 

 as he learns what to do, will obey quickly." Although 

 I have given at some length Powell's and Barey's 

 systems of training wild horses, yet in a country like 

 England there ought not to be wild horses to tame. 

 The Arabians manage their young horses much better 

 than we do. They having no other house but a tent 

 to live in ; this also serves them for a stable, so that 

 the mare, foal, husband, wife, and children, lie all 

 together indiscriminately. The little children are often 

 seen upon the body or neck of the mare, which con- 

 tinues inoffensive and harmless, permitting them to 

 play and caress it without injury, They never beat 

 their horses, but treat them gently ; they speak to 

 them and seem to hold discourse with them. They 

 use them as friends. They never try to increase 

 speed with whip or spur, unless in a case of great 

 necessity ; however, when this happens they set off 

 with amazing swiftness, and leap over obstacles with 

 the agility of a buck, and if their rider happens to fall, 

 they are so manageable that they stand still in the 



